The Cartoon Issue 2015
The Cartoon Issue: Exploring the Health of Lake Champlain; Race Car Driver Emily Packard; Stonecutter Spirits’ Barrel-Aged Gin; A Burlington DJ’s Book Tells All
Obituary: Barbara Jennie (Bean) Belleville, 1925-2015 Montpelier, VT
Barbara Jennie (Bean) Belleville, 90, passed away on July 9 at the Green Mountain Nursing Home, with family at her side. She was born in Montpelier on March 3, 1925, the daughter of the late Francis and Inez (McManis) Bean. Barbara married Donald L. Belleville on October 25, 1947. She was predeceased by her husband…
Obituary: CECILE CLAIRE (HAMMOND) BARNES, 1930-2015 Burlington, VT
Cecile Claire (Hammond) Barnes of Mountain Top, PA died in her sleep on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 after a long illness. Cecile was born in Burlington, Vermont on March 1, 1930, the daughter of John and Lena (Parizo) Hammond. She was a graduate of Cathedral High School. She married Charles Barnes of South Burlington in…
News Quirks (7/7/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Police arrested gunman Christopher Trail for holding six people hostage at a pharmacy in Red Bay, Ala. He let five of them go but kept pharmacist Donna Weatherford, who said he forced her to supply him with drugs. After an hour, he asked for a recliner. Told there was none, he pulled…
Soundbites: Inner Fire District Return; Previewing Upcoming VT Albums
Do You Wanna Get Rocked? I’m not gonna lie, folks. As I type this, I’m giddy. In fact, I can barely see straight. I keep twirling my pen like a drumstick in my right hand, while my left arm is tucked behind my back. I’m freakin’ out. That’s because I’m about T-minus 24 hours away…
Two Vermont Cartoon Projects Tell Stories, Deliver Messages
Cartoons are visually appealing and communicate quickly and accessibly — and not just to kids. A couple of ambitious adult projects in Vermont are currently using the compelling qualities of cartoons to tell the stories of people who might otherwise be voiceless. In White River Junction, two institutions central to the culture of that town…
How Can I Be Less Shy in the Bedroom?
Dear Athena Recently my man and I have decided we want to explore more in the bedroom. While it’s not new to him, it is to me, and even though some of the stuff he suggests makes me uncomfortable, it also turns me on. I’ve always been a shy person, but he makes me want…
The Sabbatical
“Oh, excuse me just a minute,” my customer said, interrupting our chat as we sped along the highway toward Stowe. He glanced down to check a text he had just received and chuckled. “My friend in Brooklyn sent me a picture of my puppy happily sleeping. I just acquired this dog, and he knows how…
The Cartoon Issue, 2015
For this third-annual edition, we once again tap into a beloved natural resource in Vermont. Nope, not cheese or beer. Cartoonists: the artists who make our stories come alive with drawings and eliminate a whole lot of words. We called upon a few cartoonists in neighboring New Hampshire, too, but close to the Center for…
Stowe Wine & Cheese Open a Wine Bar
Stowe Wine & Cheese is adding something new to its offerings later this month. Swirl wine bar, an in-store tasting café, will invite customers to sample wines by the glass, paired with an assortment of cheeses and other items. Last July, Ken and Sandie Powers purchased and renamed the former Mountain Cheese and Wine, which…
Nutty Steph’s to Cut Nightlife
At the end of July, Nutty Steph’s is pulling the curtain on evening activities at the zany Middlesex shop. Owner Stephanie Jaquelyn Rieke will continue manufacturing her retail line of chocolates, granolas and other sweets, “but no more beverages of any kind, no bacon and no nightlife,” she says. For the next three weeks, Rieke…
The Good Food Truck Serves Food-Insecure
Last Wednesday, a shiny new food truck stopped outside a trailer park in Milton. Eighty of the park’s 250 residents came out for a bite. While this may seem unremarkable — food trucks are everywhere these days — the artisanal eats emerging from the Good Food Truck were handmade with ingredients from the Vermont Foodbank and the…
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
As the best-selling young-adult author Edgar Allan Poe observed in his 1846 essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” Few filmmakers have taken those words to heart as literally as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Town That Dreaded Sundown), whose Sundance hit is…
Letters to the Editor (7/8/15)
Too Many Drunk Drivers Seven Days briefly noted the tragic and senseless death of Dr. Kenneth Najarian [“The Last Seven Days,” June 24]. But the paper failed to mention Vermont’s increasing drunk-driving problem. WalletHub reports that Vermont is the eighth most lenient state for driving under the influence. And Mothers Against Drunk Driving only gives…
Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike XXL is a summer lawn party of a movie. While the over-the-top title and basic concept may limit its theatrical appeal to women in inebriated groups, this is largely a film about dudes hanging out and shooting the breeze. There’s a fun, inclusive quality to its shaggy-dog narrative, for those willing to suspend…
Free Will Astrology (7/7/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): How can you fulfill your potential as an Aries? What strategies will help you become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles. One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has some stellar tips to inspire you: 1. One of your greatest…
Rogue Café Opens in Morrisville
Morrisville isn’t known for having a proliferation of galleries or farm-to-table restaurants, but when Rogue Artisans Café soft-opens inside the Rogue Artisans woodshop and gallery this week, the cuisine will be as handmade and artisanal as the tables, chairs and décor. “We’re an art gallery/café,” says owner Jonathan Mogor, a Navy veteran who moved to…
